Online Engaging Young People in Volunteering

This is an excellent report about youth and volunteering. While it originates in Australia, there is much that would help foster an understanding of youth and volunteering in North America.

Take a look at the Findings on pages 7 – 10 and you will find a variety of great hints on connecting with youth as volunteers, as well as ways to look at the place in which you work to assess how youth friendly it is for youth to be volunteers.

On pages 25 to 74 there are wonderful tidbits of information to be found both in the quotes from young people and in the commentary about the quotes such as…

• lack of confidence and skills
• poor public 
• working within legal and policy frameworks
• seeing young people as 'challenging'
• maintaining confidentiality in small communities
• embracing informal volunteering
• reaching the hard to reach…. and more!

It is a 120 page document, so you may want to sift through the stuff you want… You can access the document here